MELBOURNE: Legendary Australian hockey player Ric Charlesworth has been inducted into the inaugural hall of fame of Hockey Australia.

Charlesworth, presently at loggerheads with his Indian employers, is one of the 22 inductees, including 11 female recipients, whom Hockey Australia have honoured. The honouring comes on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the Perth convention and exhibition centre.
Generally the Hockey Australia hall of fame reccognise those who have achieved excellence in the international arena for their achievements enhanced the image of the sport.

Richard Aggiss, a member of the hall of fame selection committee, later said that choosing 22 recipients was a dead end task.

The selection was a difficult but exciting process as per him. Reviewing the history of the game delving back to the early 1900’s and making a comparison with those players against the current era made the selection a huge task,” says Aggiss. He also adds that the present inductees are those who retired before year 2000. He promises to induct deserving candidates in coming future.

“Given the enormous success over the last number of years and to best represent all eras of Australian hockey it was decided to limit the initial group of inductees to those players and officials who retired from international hockey prior to 2000,” feels Aggiss.

He adds that he is looking forward to add more names to the hall of fame from the modern era on a regular basis. Each hall of fame inductee was awarded a custom minted solid silver medallion struck by Perth mint.

2008 hall of fame inductees: Ian Dick, Eric Pearce, Julian Pearce, Paul Dearing, Brian Glencross, Robert Haigh, Ron Riley, Ric Charlesworth, David Bell, Warren Birmingham, Mark Hager, Evelyn Tazewell, May Campbell (nee pearce), Audrey James (nee jones), Wendy Pritchard (nee butcher), Mavis Gray (nee beckett), Dianne Gorman (nee dowd), Marian Aylmore (nee bell), Robyn Bannerman (nee downey), Sharon Buchanan, Liane Tooth, Jackie Pereira.

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